November 20, 2008 4 Comments

Search and its Discontents

The limits of language are the limits of my world. The limits of keyword search are the limits of my web world. With 7 million new pages being added daily, those limits are becoming more and more apparent. Here is an interesting view of the possible evolution of search from Nova Spivak, CEO of semantic interest networking start-up, Twine

Oh, and a free illumin8 pen to anyone who can guess the author of the first sentence in this post (hint.. a philosopher..).
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4 comments so far

  1. Rafael Sidi December 25, 2008 8:15 am

    how about orwell

  2. bailey March 3, 2009 10:28 am

    Wittgenstein

  3. Deb Oberlander April 2, 2009 9:44 am

    The Columbia World of Quotations. 1996.

    NUMBER: 65179
    QUOTATION: The limits of my language mean the limits of my world.
    ATTRIBUTION: Ludwig Wittgenstein (1889–1951), Austrian-British philosopher. Trans. by D.F. Pears and B.F. McGuinness, Routledge and Kegan Paul (1961). Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, 5.6.
    BIOGRAPHY: Columbia Encyclopedia.

  4. Arnold10 October 22, 2009 4:31 pm

    This seems to be important aspect to your second question. ,

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